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H. HT LENox 4 APPARATUS vFOR CURING AND PRESERVING FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND GRAINS F11-ed sept.v '27.- 1920 2 sheets-sheet' 2 To Marck A H ffl-16km@ MM attozmuj lll Patented l7 ll;

rl il i lll mil application lefl September 2.7, 1920. Serial No. 412,916.

To fill inkom may concern De it lnoivn that linnn? il. Lnnozr, citi-- zen of the United tiltat-es7 residing at Selma,"

e oi Ala .nd useful Aents in i-rpparatus tor Curing and ving Fruits) Vegetables, and Grains, ich the following is a specific-ation. Lis invention relates to irnproveinents in apparatus V'or curing7 preservin and drying vegetables, tobacco. truite ano grain.

The primary obicct of the invention is to inbox/ide an iinpixx l apparatus adapted to be installed in s house whereby fruits,

in the county or `lallas and Stat has invented certain new e vegetables, tobacco or grain may be dried and maintained in a of preservation during the time they are stored so that they will be sound and in goed condition when ready 'for use.

The invention 'further contemplates the proi'f'ision oi drying' ineens obtained from a heating unit and cooling means obtained f" oni a. cooling unit the saine being associated in a manner 'that will permit them to be used interchangeably according to the species of toed products in the store housev Other objects ot the invention Will appear upon consideration oit the following detail description and accompanying draiv ings Whereinr igure 'l is a plan vieiv of a portion oli the apparatus including soine of the elements oi the invention.

Figure 2 is a detail View of one o the distributing` pipes.

igure 3 is an end elevation'of the re ceiving end of one oi" the conduit pipes showing the manner of connecting the cooling coils thereto.

Figure l is an elevation of a portion of the apparatus illustrating the drying ineans.

Figure 5 is a detail View of the damper in one of the pipes, and

Figure 6 is a cross section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

ln practice7 the apparatus Will be installed in a store house or building Where the food products, such as vegetables, fruits. tobacco or grain are to be stored and the heating unit l will be conveniently located and connected by a flue 2 to a brick chinoney 3 which `inay lbe a smoke stack. The heating unit l may consist of a furnace or other suitable heating plant and has a heat conducting pipe l leading therefrom to a tion oi heating and y blower tan 5. rlhe latter is suitably niounted and has its drive shaft equipped with a pulley 6 over which an obliquely disposed belt is trained., the latter also passing over a pulley 8 on a shaft 9 suspended from the root stricture by hangers lO. A pulley ll on the shaft receives a belt l2 which is driven a suitable inotor or eny'gine located at any convenient place, (not shown).

il. relatively large hood 13, substantially conical in iorrnatiomis suspended horizontally vabove the place 'where the vegetables9 et cetera, are to be stored, and this hood is "-onrected to pipe lll located in front ot said belt l' and which is hung by 5 and a Weighted cable 16 disposed off sha it 9 and suspended roin the structure. A swivel connection 17 joins pipe With an upstanding pipe 'i8 so that the hood may be suspended over the products and may draw the air upwardly causing the air to percolate through the product and thus keep the consta-nt circulaair passing; through the products.

in ii roof to accomplish this purpose. The damper i9 consists ot an openingN icorrned in the pipe 18 and adapted to be closed by a sliding; closure member 2O whereby the size of the pe" may be regulated to regulate 'the Quanti J oi external air drawn into the pipe and pipes Il and i8 are selectively attaehable toy and detachable from the bl Wer 5 in my conventional manner5 torming no part oiI this invention and for instaure V,b v telescopic engagement oi flexible terminals la and 18a respectively with a collar el the blower.

Eis shown in F i the' tan 5 is also provided With a pipe 2l which extends into a cooling chamber 22 and has a largie tia-red end 23 closed by a plate Within which is provided a series of seven openings to receive the ends of a correspending series oli coils of pipe indicated at 2li. The coils 2li4 are arranged Within the cooling charnber 22 and their opposite ends are connected to a flared end 25 of a conduit 26. The flared end 25 is of the same construction as the flared end 23 oif the pipe 21 and the seven coils are connected in the same manner. @bviously any Lgreater or less number oit coils be provided it desired.

The conduit section 26 extends parallel with the aisle 27 and has a series of anguihe upstanding pipe i8 leads to the fan 

